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Grade 935 Movement, Serial No. 606366 manufactured 1902, needs regulator spring.

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Case in a screw back and bezel yellow gold filled A.W.C.Co. Fortune case.

Going West I have another Rockford 18 size, 16 jewel, private-label double sunk Roman numeral in black and 24 hour in red marked "W.H. Asselstine, Calgary, Alb."

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Rockford 18 size, 16 jewel, Grade 88 manufactured 1898, gilt movement with Teske's regulator and L/P screw for Lever for Pendant setting

Case screw back and bezel Silveroid

Going to the Eastern provinces another Rockford, 18 size, 17 jewel, Grade 935, private-label single sunk Roman numeral in black 24 hour red inner tract marked "Fred L Thompson, Moncton, N.B.,"

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Movement close-up Serial No. 704901 Manufactured 1907 movement marked "Thompson's Special"

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Screw back and bezel Philadelphia Watch Case Co. Silverode case. I find a paradox with the two Rockford watches from British Columbia, and New Brunswick, the West Coast has the 12 hour dial. And the East Coast has the 24-hour dial, it's usually the other way around.

I have attached some Canadian railway maps to illustrate the distance between Vancouver, BC and and Revelstoke, the first map on the left-hand side you can see some of the CPR operations on Vancouver Island on their subsidiary Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway, lots of forest products came from this region, running out of Vancouver, BC. You can see the green line, this was a provincial railway called the Pacific Great Eastern, started in the early 1900s it took many years to build to its terminus at Prince George, BC, the public called it "Please Go Easy" or "Prince George Eventually" the red line is CPR, and the blue was originally the Canadian Northern that went bankrupt and was taken over by the federal government in 1920 and became part of Canadian National Railways. The CPR leaving Vancouver on the Cascade Subdivision runs through the fertile Fraser River valley that is rich in farming vegetables and fruit. It then turns north up the Fraser River Canyon, and at North Bend BC a distance of 129 miles. Crews change off and the next leg on the Thompson Subdivision takes the train to the top of the Fraser Canyon, and East to Kamloops, BC a distance of 121.5 miles this is the home terminal for the crews, this is hot, arid ranching country, and hops for beer grow good here.

The crews from Revelstoke run the trains eastward 128.8 through to their home terminal in the mountains, at Revelstoke crews are changed a from the pool that work eastward out of Revelstoke on the Mountain Subdivision this is a challenging piece of railway going through the Rogers Pass with heavy mountain grades that have been alleviated to a degree by drilling the Mount McDonald tunnel through the pass in the 1980s, this is the longest railway tunnel in the northern hemisphere,after running 125.7 miles, they arrived at Field, British Columbia a total distance of 505 miles from Vancouver. Crews from Calgary, Alberta change off and run the trainers eastward from Field altitude 4000 feet 14 miles over the Rocky Mountains Continental Divide,at 5283 feet. Then downhill another 121 miles to Calgary, Alberta.

Although not a private-label, this is an interesting Canadian presentation watch.
Double sunk bold Arabic with radial minute markers dial signed. Howard.

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Howard 16 size, 19 jewel Series 5, Serial No. 1108084 manufactured 1912.

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Hinged front and double hinged back Howard. Keystone, yellow gold filled case.

Case back presentation:

To
Bro. Thos. McGovern
from
New Brunswick, Div.
No. 229 O.R.C.
Jan. 1912